The New LoveShack.org: Discuss the update and quirks/features here

[carhill]

My old eyes find the font here a bit small too; what I do is hit command-+ on my Mac and the text enlarges and apparently the browser remembers since it stays that size whenever I return here, even if other sites are not zoomed at all. Currently, it's at 120% and that works OK for me.

[elaine567]

125% is a good size for me. Win 10
Layout is balanced and clear.
I love the new site. 

[lonelyplanetmoon]

On 12/26/2019 at 7:36 PM, Robert said:

Try holding the control key and rolling your mouse button, instant enlargement...

 

I am using an iPad. How do I increase font size on iPad?

 

[carhill]

Does command - + work?

[K.K.]

I’m on an iPhone. Just click the 3 bars at the top right.Scroll down to your account and your profile to see what you posted in. 

Click the little square at the top for the new posts. Or scroll down on the 3 bars again and hit activity and more then hit all activity. That’s how you see everything and everybody that has posted or liked. 

To see the last page of a multi-page thread you just hit the little arrow things at the bottom or top next to the ‘next button’. If you just want to go the next page hit next. I don’t punch in any numbers. Unless I’m misunderstanding you here and that’s entirely possible. Lol 

Edited December 31, 2019 by K.K.

[K.K.]

Hi so, I can’t get the ‘condensed’ tab to work. It’s on ‘expanded’ and won’t come off of it. 

I don’t want the expanded view.  

Did I break something? 

 

 

[CautiouslyOptimistic]

14 minutes ago, K.K. said:

Hi so, I can’t get the ‘condensed’ tab to work. It’s on ‘expanded’ and won’t come off of it. 

I don’t want the expanded view.  

Did I break something? 

 

 

Same here.

[K.K.]

Ok, well it’s not just me then.

Thanks CO ! Appreciate it.  

[carhill]

Looks like a bug. Paul should be around tonight in the chat so will hit him up.

[K.K.]

Thank you carhill 

[carhill]

Also filed a report in case he's off to a NYE party somewhere. He's been working on the forum tweeking this and that pretty much every day.

[CautiouslyOptimistic]

10 minutes ago, carhill said:

Also filed a report in case he's off to a NYE party somewhere. He's been working on the forum tweeking this and that pretty much every day.

Well, it's not an emergency ;).

 

[carhill]

Ha, ha, gotta strike while the iron is hot. Never know how long we have. Meanwhile I'll check some of the other toggles.

[K.K.]

Well... now I can’t even get to the condensed/expanded tab because the little pink New Years chat pop up thing that was staying at the bottom of the screen, has now moved up to the very top of the screen and directly underneath it there’s a whole huge row of ads covering half the screen. 

I can’t work like this.  

 

[Paul]

Hi K.K.,

12 hours ago, K.K. said:

Hi so, I can’t get the ‘condensed’ tab to work. It’s on ‘expanded’ and won’t come off of it. 

I don’t want the expanded view.  

Did I break something? 

Thanks for letting us know about this issue. We investigated and found that this was a bug that happened when the clock switched to 2020. We reported the issue to our vendor and put in a temporary fix that should have this working for you.

Please let us know if you still have any trouble (you might need to refresh the page). Happy New Year!

Best,
Paul

[K.K.]

Yes it worked! Thank you Paul, Happy New Year ! 

[littleblackheart]

Not usually a big fan of change but I have to say I'm really enjoying navigating this new and improved LS. I especially like how much easier it is now to quote parts of a post.

 

It also feels a lot slicker and overall more professional.

 

Great upgrade!

[chillii]

18 hours ago, littleblackheart said:

Not usually a big fan of change but I have to say I'm really enjoying navigating this new and improved LS. I especially like how much easier it is now to quote parts of a post.

Sorry but l can't stand it.  l dunno why they can't just leave websites as they are instead of always tinkering and fiddling. l use Ebay and a few others for a living and every damn mth or two we're suppose to learn all this new bs about their tinkering . That'd be fine for a lot of people out there got nothing better to do but l  can tell ya , for me, it just wastes my time.

And they usually take what was a perfectly good site, very easy and straight forward , does everything it needs to simply and straight forwardly , and turn it into a damn complicated mess. You should see what my trading sites done to what use to be the best trading site out there, it's just a pain in the ass now.  lt was 10x better 10 yrs ago than what it is now. And sorry mods but it's just the same all over again here. The old one was nicely basic very very easy did everything it had to and was much easier on the eyes.

Edited January 3, 2020 by a LoveShack.org Moderator

[Veronica73]

I like the option to avoid ads.

[SummerDreams]

Hello everyone and happy new year! I love the new format, so much easier to read, quote and post, easy to edit, easy to read new comments the moment they are created. I am reading on mozilla, windows 10 at 170% zoom. Am I blind or are the letters too small?

[nospam99]

LOL because I agree with chillii way too much and too often. IIRC (on the old system) at least once I referred to him as my 'brother from another mother'.

I agree that I prefer the old system. Water under the bridge. TL/DR summary of my observations follows.

It took a while for me to work out all the functionality. But I can:
- read posts
- reply
- start new topics
- go to the first unseen by me post in a topic (although it looks like when a topic gets moved to a different category my 'bookmark' gets lost)

That's enough function for the site to be useful to me.

What I can't do anymore (in some instances because I run with javascript off):
- quote
- see my or someone else's Likes history and thus link to the profile of someone who has given a particular person (ME!) a Like
- see my or someone else's posts per day average
- see my full PM history
- distinguish sent and received PMs from each other
- go to the first unseen by me (something like View First Unread on the old system) from within as open topic
- see the post index and thus easily tell whether or not I'm at the beginning of the topic

I don't like the display features of the new User Interface (UI) at all. Too much whitespace for me resulting in too much scrolling. More links to follow than on the old system in order to navigate to certain specific information.

My other 'peculiarity' (I prefer to consider it a skill :D ) is that I touch type, not just the QWERTY part of the keyboard, but the row of numbers and punctuation keys, all (caps lock, alpha shift, function shift, control shift, option shift, alt shift, command shift, numeric shift) the shift keys, and the delete, backspace, and 'arrow' keys, too. Any UI that makes me take my fingers off the home keys to use a 'pointing device' sux. I find that happens more often on the new system.

[Paul]

7 hours ago, Veronica73 said:

I like the option to avoid ads.

Thanks for helping the site as a supporting member!

[Prudence V]

Some stuff is less intuitive, and needs getting used to, but overall I far prefer the new site. I’ve noticed I’m spending much more time on the site since the reboot. 
 

I noticed that posts no longer automatically merge when you’re the last person to have posted, and you reply to someone else. I thought that was pretty cool, so I’m sad it’s gone, but maybe it would have gotten irritating if there were major changes in tone, say, between an earlier response and a later one, that all got lumped into one past, so that the tone got misread.  So perhaps it’s better this way, though it was cool while it lasted.

Edited January 3, 2020 by Prudence V
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[Paul]

Just now, Prudence V said:

Some stuff is less intuitive, and needs getting used to, but overall I far prefer the new site. I’ve noticed I’m spending much more time on the site since the reboot. 

Glad you find it an overall improvement, Prudence V! There's some little quirks we're still working through and making changes with, but I agree with you that this experience is a net gain.

1 minute ago, Prudence V said:

I noticed that posts no longer automatically merge when you’re the last person to have posted, and you replay to someone else. I thought that was pretty cool, so I’m sad it’s gone, but maybe it would have gotten irritating if there were major changes in tone, say, between an earlier response and a later one, that all got lumped into one past, so that the tone got misread.

I was personally an original fan of this behavior, until I had a fight with it in this very thread.

While a nice feature, I think it's better for the site to behave as as you intended. In other words, if I hit new reply, I expect a new reply; if I click edit, I expect an edit. As such, we increased the time you can edit posts, regardless of whether or not you're the last poster, and turned that behavior off.

This way, if you meant to append something to a post, you can choose to edit it and if you're intending to create a new reply (perhaps directed to another poster, as was my personal case here), you can choose to compose a new reply and know that the end result will be exactly what you expected when you press submit.

[Paul]

5 hours ago, SummerDreams said:

Am I blind or are the letters too small?

You're not the first person to mention this and we're taking a look at different ways we can address this. Thanks for the feedback, SummerDreams!